We’re excited to share that our Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ was recently recognized as the Data Analytics Solution of the Year by Data Breakthrough. We join an impressive list of innovative solutions and companies that are solving complex and critical problems and disrupting new markets and industries.

Cien años de Soledad? Do not want! And yet, for all of us, the world has changed pretty dramatically over the last few weeks. We could debate over whether this should, in fact, have been the last few months instead, but looking backward at this point isn’t really pragmatic.

I have a confession to make. I was going to use this blog to wax poetically about the flaw inherent in the well-established notion of the Three Pillars of Observability. I was going to argue that a fourth pillar was badly needed: topological metadata.

If you are reading this, I don’t have to convince you any further of the powerful intelligence we can derive from logs and machine data. If you are anything like the many, many users, customers and prospects we have been talking to over the years, you might, however, have some level of that pesky modern condition commonly known as volume anxiety.

Everything old is new again–that’s a universal law! In our industry, we have talked about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for a long time. At Sumo, we are proud to continue to be the only Machine Data Analytics Platform as a Service that commits to a query performance SLA.

User Conferences are powerful. I remember well the previous startup-turned-grown-up- company that I was blessed to be part of. User conferences there were always rewarding experiences. Preparations were stressful and until the first day of the actual conference, I could feel as if everything was going to fall apart.

On February 3, 2019, the Sumo Logic platform experienced its biggest ever spike in incoming data and analytics usage in the company’s history. On this day, close to everybody in the U.S., and many more people across the world, experienced a massive sports event: Super Bowl LIII.

All businesses today are built on layers of platforms. The app running your business is built on top of the Kubernetes application deployment platform, running on the AWS cloud platform. AWS is built on top of platforms such as the Linux operating system and the Intel X86 processor architecture. Smartly managed, a good product evolves into a platform for users to extract value and for developers to create new products and platforms. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.